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Welcome to the homepage of Matthias Huck.

Currently I am PhD student within the Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition Group at the Chair of Computer Science 6 of the RWTH Aachen University.

The main research topics of the chair are

Pattern Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition
Statistical Machine Translation
Image Processing

My personal research interest is machine translation, at the moment in particular hierarchical phrase-based machine translation.

I am co-author of Jane, RWTH's open-source statistical machine translation toolkit, free for non-commercial use.

You can find me in room 6126 of our department, call me at +49 241 80 21617 or write an e-mail to huck [-at-] cs.rwth-aachen.de.

Teaching

Course Work

Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Summer 2011, with Christoph Schmidt.
Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Summer 2010, with Daniel Stein.

Lab Courses

Undergrad software lab Machine Translation, Summer 2012, with Markus Freitag.
Undergrad software lab Machine Translation, Summer 2011, with Markus Freitag.
Undergrad software lab Machine Translation, Summer 2010, with Daniel Stein.
Undergrad software lab Machine Translation, Summer 2009, with Daniel Stein.

Supervision

Bachelor thesis of Erik Scharwächter, "Discontinuous Phrases for Statistical Machine Translation", 2012.
Diploma thesis of Jan-Thorsten Peter, "Soft String-to-Dependency Hierarchical Machine Translation", 2011, with Daniel Stein.
Seminars about selected topics in Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition,
Winter 2009/10, Winter 2010/11, Winter 2011/12, Summer 2012
Topics: "Discriminative Training for Machine Translation", "Syntax-based Translation", "Decoding for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation", "Reordering for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation", "Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation"

Publications

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2012

M. Huck, and H. Ney. Insertion and Deletion Models for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies conference (NAACL HLT), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2012. To appear.
M. Freitag, S. Peitz, M. Huck, H. Ney, T. Hermann, J. Niehues, A. Waibel, A. Allauzen, G. Adda, B. Buschbeck, J. M. Crego, and J. Senellart. Joint WMT 2012 Submission of the QUAERO Project. In NAACL 2012 Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2012), Montreal, Canada, June 2012. To appear.
M. Huck, S. Peitz, M. Freitag, M. Nuhn, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for WMT 2012. In NAACL 2012 Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2012), Montreal, Canada, June 2012. To appear.
M. Huck, S. Peitz, M. Freitag, and H. Ney. Discriminative Reordering Extensions for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Machine Translation. In 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), Trento, Italy, May 2012. To appear.
D. Vilar, D. Stein, M. Huck, and H. Ney. Jane: an advanced freely available hierarchical machine translation toolkit. Machine Translation, pages 1-20, January 2012.

2011

J. Peter, M. Huck, H. Ney, and D. Stein. Soft String-to-Dependency Hierarchical Machine Translation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 246-253, San Francisco, California, USA, December 2011.
J. Wuebker, M. Huck, S. Mansour, M. Freitag, M. Feng, S. Peitz, C. Schmidt, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2011. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 106-113, San Francisco, California, USA, December 2011.
M. Huck, S. Mansour, S. Wiesler, and H. Ney. Lexicon Models for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Machine Translation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 191-198, San Francisco, California, USA, December 2011.
M. Huck, J. Wuebker, C. Schmidt, M. Freitag, S. Peitz, D. Stein, A. Dagnelies, S. Mansour, G. Leusch, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for WMT 2011. In EMNLP 2011 Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2011), pages 405-412, Edinburgh, UK, July 2011.
M. Huck, D. Vilar, D. Stein, and H. Ney. Lightly-Supervised Training for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Machine Translation. In EMNLP 2011 Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in NLP, pages 91-96, Edinburgh, UK, July 2011.
M. Huck, D. Vilar, D. Stein, and H. Ney. Advancements in Arabic-to-English Hierarchical Machine Translation. In 15th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), pages 273-280, Leuven, Belgium, May 2011.
D. Stein, D. Vilar, S. Peitz, M. Freitag, M. Huck, and H. Ney. A Guide to Jane, an Open Source Hierarchical Translation Toolkit. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, number 95, pages 5-18, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2011.

2010

M. Huck, M. Ratajczak, P. Lehnen, and H. Ney. A Comparison of Various Types of Extended Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation. In Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas 2010 (AMTA 2010), Denver, Colorado, USA, October 2010.
D. Vilar, D. Stein, M. Huck, and H. Ney. Jane: Open Source Hierarchical Translation, Extended with Reordering and Lexicon Models. In ACL 2010 Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and Metrics MATR (WMT 2010), pages 262-270, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010.
C. Heger, J. Wuebker, M. Huck, G. Leusch, S. Mansour, D. Stein, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for WMT 2010. In ACL 2010 Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and Metrics MATR (WMT 2010), pages 93-97, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010.

Full list of publications of the chair.

Talks and Presentations

Selected talks and presentations (other than those associated with conference publications):

Lightly-Supervised Training for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Machine Translation. Talk at the 8th bi-annual Quaero Workshop. Rennes, France, October 2011.
The RWTH Aachen Statistical Machine Translation System. Demo presentation at the Quaero CTC/Corpus & Plenary Meeting. Karlsruhe, Germany, April 2011, with Saab Mansour.
Extending Jane with Secondary Models. Talk at the Quaero WP4 Technical Workshop. Orsay, France, December 2010.
The RWTH Aachen Statistical Machine Translation System. Demo presentation at the Quaero CTC/Corpus & Plenary Meeting. Paris, France, October 2010, with Saab Mansour and Volker Steinbiß.
Various Types of Extended Lexicon Models in PBT and HPBT. Talk at the 6th bi-annual Quaero Workshop. Paris, France, October 2010.
RWTH’s 2010 Quaero MT Systems. Talk at the Quaero WP4/5 Workshop. Aachen, Germany, October 2010.

Projects

Projects I am working (or have worked) on:

EU-BRIDGE, funded by the European Union
Quaero, funded by OSEO, French State agency for innovation
GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation), funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

List of projects of the chair.

Evaluations

Participation in machine translation evaluation campaigns:

Translation task of the NAACL 2012 Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
- English-to-French Jane HPBT system as part of the RWTH submission
MT track of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation 2011 Evaluation Campaign
- English-to-French Jane HPBT system as part of the RWTH submission
Quaero Machine Translation Evaluation 2011
- Arabic-to-French Jane HPBT systems
Translation task of the EMNLP 2011 Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
- French-to-English PBT system as part of the RWTH submission
- English-to-French PBT and Jane HPBT systems as part of the RWTH submission
DARPA GALE Machine Translation Evaluation 2011
- Arabic-to-English Jane HPBT system as part of the IBM team submission
Quaero Machine Translation Evaluation 2010
- French-to-English PBT and Jane HPBT systems
- English-to-French PBT and Jane HPBT systems
- Arabic-to-French Jane HPBT systems
Translation task of the ACL 2010 Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
- French-to-English systems as part of the RWTH submission
- English-to-French systems as part of the RWTH submission
- German-to-English systems as part of the RWTH submission
- English-to-German systems as part of the RWTH submission
DARPA GALE Machine Translation Evaluation 2010
- Arabic-to-English Jane HPBT system as part of the IBM team submission
Quaero Machine Translation Evaluation 2009
- French-to-English PBT systems
- English-to-French PBT systems
- German-to-French PBT systems for translation of speech
- French-to-German PBT systems for translation of speech
- Arabic-to-French Jane HPBT system and PBT pivot translation (English as bridge language)
NIST Open Machine Translation 2009 Evaluation
- Arabic-to-English n-best list reranking as part of the RWTH submission